HR8 2SB

Three Crosses · Herefordshire, County of · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Ledbury
Ward: Three Crosses
Local authority: Herefordshire, County of
Constituency: North Herefordshire
Postcode district: HR8
Postcode sector: HR8 2

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
HR8 2SD	10 m
HR8 2SA	410 m
HR8 2RZ	512 m
HR8 2SE	521 m
HR8 2SW	546 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: HR8 2SB
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: HR
Postcode district: HR8
Postcode sector: HR8 2
Latitude: 52.072177
Longitude: -2.513682
British National Grid easting: 364,888
British National Grid northing: 241,658

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: West Midlands · E12000005
Local authority district: Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
Electoral ward: Three Crosses · E05009485
Parish or community: E04000688
Westminster constituency: North Herefordshire · E14001395
Output area: E00070742
Lower layer super output area: Herefordshire 018C · E01014014
Middle layer super output area: Herefordshire 018 · E02002922

Postcode source versions

Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence

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Property

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4 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
1, Heywood Lane, Ashperton, Ledbury, HR8 2SB	16 August 2024	£385,000
Tunnel House, Haywood Lane, Ashperton, Ledbury, HR8 2SB	25 June 2021	£349,950
Tunnel House, Haywood Lane, Ashperton, Ledbury, HR8 2SB	3 January 2013	£250,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Ashperton Primary Academy

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385 m
Queenswood School

Other independent special school
3.5 km
Bosbury CofE Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
5.0 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 8
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 4
Burglary 3
Other theft 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 7
Postcode households: 4
Residents per household: 1.8
HR8 2 residents: 9,659

Age bands in HR8 2

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 13.7%
Age 15 to 24: 9.1%
Age 25 to 44: 20.1%
Age 45 to 64: 27.9%
Age 65 and over: 29.2%

This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HR8 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.

Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.

Fixed broadband coverage

Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.

Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+: 100%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 40%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 40%
Gigabit-capable: 40%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 80%

Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Telephone Box

BCT · Ashperton
0.3 miles
Telephone Box

BCT · Ashperton
0.3 miles
Millfield

BCT · Canon Frome
1.0 miles
Millfield

BCT · Canon Frome
1.0 miles
Garage

BCT · Blacklands
1.0 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 018C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.

Overall IMD decile

5 of 10

Overall England rank

14,202 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 9 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 9 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 of 10

These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

Property market

The five-year median is £385,000 from 1 recorded sale in HR8 2SB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.

The latest UK House Price Index average for Herefordshire is £289,715 in June 2026, up 4.8% year on year.

Schools

3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ashperton Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 385 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.